Duma: Thamin Dawabshe was murdered today
Thamin Dawabshe, of the extended Dawabshe family, was murdered today.
I spoke with Hussein Dawabshe, following this and asked him a few questions about their life at present.
Ahmed has turned 15, it has been a decade since he lost his family to the colonist arsonists.
Economy: they live on 2,000 shekels as a result of selling sheep toward Eid al Fitr. This includes buying lambs, paying for electricity and water which in themselves cost 500 a month. The sum of 1500 shekels is left to feed 6 persons, and some to feed the sheep.
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Duma
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Duma
A village in the Nablus governorate, with 3,000 residents. They owned some 18,000 dunams, 500 dunams of which the village itself was built. However, after the settlement of Migdaleim annexed a large part of their land, their area was reduced to only 2,000 dunams.On July 31, 2015, two houses in the town were torched with petrol bombs. Sa'ad and Riham Dawabsha, and their infant, Ali Sa'ad Dawabsha, were burned to death. Another son was seriously injured. "Revenge" and "King Messiah" were spray painted on the walls of the house. The trial of the arsonist, the settler Amiram Ben Uliel, is still underway (2019), and a plea bargain was signed in May 2018 with the minor who participated in the planning of the arson.
The closure imposed by the army, the poor roads that they are forced use due to the lack of paving permits from the Civil Administration, along with the lack of public transportation, all these difficulties cut off the village from nearby Nablus and Ramallah.
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